Penny Herscher is an American executive in electronic design automation industry, formerly with Cadence Design Systems.
She was Chairman and CEO of Simplex Solutions when the company IPO’d, subsequently acquired by Cadence in 2002[1][2][3]
Within Cadence she held positions of executive vice president and general manager of the design and functional verification division.[4]
Penny Herscher holds a BA Hons, MA in mathematics from Cambridge University. She began her career in 1982 as an R&D engineer with Texas Instruments and then Daisy Systems. During 1988 - 1996 she was an employee and senior executive at Synopsys.[2]